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Book Three
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- Book Three
- Chapter I - Deluded By An Insane Love, He, Though Foul And Dishonourable, Desires To Be Thought Elegant And Urbane.
- Chapter II - In Public Spectacles He Is Moved By An Empty Compassion. He Is Attacked By A Troublesome Spiritual Disease.
- Chapter III - Not Even When At Church Does He Suppress His Desires. In The School Of Rhetoric He Abhors The Acts Of The Subverters.
- Chapter IV - In The Nineteenth Year Of His Age (His Father Having Died Two Years Before) He Is Led By The "Hortensius" Of Cicero To "Philosophy," To God, And A Better Mode Of Thinking.
- Chapter IX - That The Judgment Of God And Men, As To Human Acts Of Violence, Is Different.
- Chapter V - He Rejects The Sacred Scriptures As Too Simple, And As Not to Be Compared With The Dignity Of Tully.
- Chapter VI - Deceived By His Own Fault, He Falls Into The Errors Of The Manichaeans, Who Gloried In The True Knowledge Of God And In A Thorough Examination Of Things.
- Chapter VII - He Attacks The Doctrine Of The Manichaeans Concerning Evil, God, And The Righteousness Of The Patriarchs.
- Chapter VIII - He Argues Against The Same As To The Reason Of Offences.
- Chapter X - He Reproves The Triflings Of The Manichæans As To The Fruits Of The Earth.
- Chapter XI - He Refers To The Tears, And The Memorable Dream Concerning Her Son, Granted By God To His Mother.
- Chapter XII -The Excellent Answer Of The Bishop When Referred To By His Mother As To The Conversion Of Her Son.
- Contents - Book III